On 17 September, shortly after 06:00, police received a call advising there was a bomb on Maitland station. Trains scheduled through the station were halted, the entire precinct was cleared and a...
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In a break-in at the Transnet Humewood diesel depot offices used by the Apple Express group, a computer, heavy-duty power cables, tools and other items worth about R60,000 were stolen. Earlier, copper...
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Mosenngwa Mofi of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) says theft and vandalism pose a huge challenge to the organisation, which spends nearly a billion rand annually fighting crime on...
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On 14 September 2012, Metrorail's evening peak train service was disrupted due to violent service delivery protests at Kopanong, a township near Rosslyn and Soshanguve. Thought the action had nothing...
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On 24 August, an early morning call to the police at Paarl warned of a bomb at the local station. The facility was evacuated while a detailed search was carried out. Six trains were delayed for...
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Trains came to a standstill at Johannesburg's Park station in the afternoon peak hour on 29 August. Signal power failures, according to Metrorail's Lillian Mofokeng, 'affected the movement of all...
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Four men appeared in the Queenstown magistrate's court on 17 August charged with stealing copper. They were caught by Transnet security personnel who found them in possession of copper cable estimated...
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On 24 August, a seventeen-year-old boy fell from a commuter train at the Warner Beach station on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast. He was taken to local doctors' rooms from where paramedics conveyed him...
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On 29 October 2006, Serge Loutala (now 39) lost the sight in his right eye while travelling in a Metrorail train near Netreg station on the Cape Flats. There was no glass in the window beside his seat...
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From April 2006 to December 2011, copper cable worth R3.12 billion was stolen from Eskom' Transnet and the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa). The Democratic Alliance's Pieter van Dalen said the...
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